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September 16, 2025Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition

Charitable and memorable? Probing the effects of prosocial decisions on face memory in younger and older adults

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SDShadini DematagodaSJSana JunaidJSJulia Spaniol

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Overview

Experiment examines prosociality's effect on episodic memory in younger and older adults, revealing no significant changes in face recognition performance.

Key Points

  • Older adults showed higher satisfaction with charitable decisions, but prosocial rewards did not enhance face memory performance.
  • Despite engaging in prosocial financial transfers, both younger and older adults did not demonstrate improved recognition of faces associated with decisions.
  • The study included 128 healthy participants to assess memory challenges linked to prosociality across different age groups.
  • Findings indicate that incidental encoding of faces remains unaffected by emotional states from prosocial decision-making.

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Dematagoda et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d44f7b31b076d99fa56ea1https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2025.2559699
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